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No.*258,757. Patenlted Feb. 14,1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

l FREDERICK PEARGE, OF NEW YORK, AND JAMES JONES, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

REVO LVI NG SHOW-STAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,757, dated February r14, 1882.

Application filed December 1, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK PEAReE and J AMES JONES, citizens ofthe United States, residing respectively at New York and Brooklyn,in the counties ofNew York and Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Revolving Show- Stands, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawings.

This invention relates to revolving showstands adapted for the exhibition of merchandise; and the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of devices, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, which fully illustrate the invention, Figure l is a vertical elevation, partly in section; and Fig. 2 is asectional plan of Fig. l on the line m x.

A represents a standard, which is provided near its lower end with a bracket, a, having lugs, in which are jonrnaled the rollers b b. This standard is chambered or excavated at its upper end to form a step for the pivot, by means of which the inclosing tube B is supported. The beveled chamber or cavity c thus formed in the upper end of the standard A also serves as an oil-cup, whereby the friction caused by the rotation of the supporting spindle or pivot is largely diminished. The tube B, to which the shelves are attached, as shown by dotted lines, Fig. 1, is provided at its upper end with a screw-threaded perforation for the passage of a pivot or spindle, d, attached to the removable cap-piece G, the upper end of said spindlev being screw-threaded to correspond with the threaded perforation or opening in the end of the tube.

At the lower end of the tube B is a cogged disk, D, which is provided on its under side with apband or collar, E, that incluses the rollers b b. lt will be seen that the inner side of the band E is in contact with and turns upon said rollers, which thus serve, in conjunction with the spindle or pivot d, to hold the tubein a proper vertical position.

The standard A may be fixed to a pedestal, F, or other suitable support, asdesired, and motion may be communicated to the tube B in any convenient manner. The cogged disk Dv will serve as a means of revolving the tube B,

motion being imparted to said disk by the pinion of a clockgearin g or like mechanism.

If desired, the collar E may be used as a pulley by attaching suitable belting thereto, or the device may be operated by electricity or other power applied in any convenient manner. v

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, with the standard A, having a bracket carrying rollers b b, adapted to revolve within a collar, of the tube B and disk D, having collar E, adapted to revolve around the standard, substantially as set forth.

2. In a revolving show-stand, the combination of the standard A, having rollers b b and oil cup or cavity c, the tube B, inclosing said standard, and provided with a disk, D, having a band or collar, E, adapted to revolve upon the rollers b, and the cap-piece C, having a threaded spindle, d, passing through a cor. 

